You know that summer is slowly coming to an end when the August long-weekend rolls in, which means you’ve got one month before you put away your flip flops. Where will you be, and how are you going to spend it? If a road trip to Montreal for Osheaga crosses your mind, then you definitely know how to celebrate the rest of the summer.

Osheaga, pronounced OH-SHEE-AHH-GAH is a unique music and arts festival that takes place each summer in Montreal at Parc Jean-Drapeau, a beautiful island located amongst one of North America’s most exciting cities. The artist line-up consists of current and emerging Canadian talent sharing the stage with internationally known artists and is presented throughout two days of fun, great music and moments worthy of your summer bucket list. It’s a vacation of indie-rock euphoria!!

With a full day of sunshine, friends, live music and people-watching, this is definitely a taste of the good life. The poutine trucks are copious, along with your option of vegetarian wraps, corn on the cob, and let’s not forget pizza in a cone. To your surprise, beer lines don’t exist which extends the drinking restriction to the entire park—which, in fact, will make you surprisingly less bothersome to everyone else in line.

In sheer joy of being surrounded by many beautiful people, you manage to take a few snap shots of the flirty and fashionable.

The best part of it all is the entire weekend, but let’s not forget the music, K’naan, Pavement, The Nationals, Charlie Winston, Sonic Youth, Stars, Major Laser, Snoop Dog, Arcade Fire (they’ve just released a new album), Metric and The Black Keys—who are currently featured in the movie soundtrack for the Twilight Saga: Eclipse.

Night falls, the chill sets in and the thought of not carrying a jacket comes to mind, and though you probably have a layer of dirt all over your body, you knew this would happen, and it is all worth being in the same place as these extremely talented musicians listening to their latest and greatest. Beneath the stars, you are with the warm company of friends united with thousands of music-lovers singing in unison to the headliner which happens to be Weezer—the teenage dirt bag who stole your sweater on an island in the sun.